Original press release of the Kitty Genovese Womens Project, issued from 316 5th Avenue, Suite 301, New York, on the first anniversary of the project's founding. In the project's own words: a small group of women entered the Dallas County Records Building intending to print and distribute the names of all men in Dallas County indicted for sex crimes against women; after months of intensive research they compiled approximately 2,100 indicted sex offenders and printed 25,000 copies of the list. The release states the project's reasoning ("close to half of all women raped are raped by men they know"; "society has failed to deal with rape effectively, so we as women must deal with it ourselves"), its precision ("This list is not a list of rapists. It is a list of men indicted for sex crimes against women"), and its membership ("All women directly involved with this project are working class residents of Dallas. Many of us are past rape victims"). The second half documents the "Friendly Rapist" case: the project's reward fund, and the apprehension — two days after this publication was printed — of Guy William Marble Jr., Vice-President of Public Relations at Bloom Advertising, spotted by police stakeout on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1977, at 1:50 a.m.; his fingerprints reportedly matching 19 victims' apartments, his indicated involvement in 80 of 81 offense reports, and his admission of 12 unreported rapes. "THERE ARE NO FRIENDLY RAPISTS!... He is, as all rapists are, an enemy of all women." Closes with the project's memorial statement for Kitty Genovese "and other women who have lost their lives to sexism, a system that grooms women to be victims and ignores their cries of hurt and anger." This press release is the authoritative primary source for the project's figures, superseding secondary press accounts. Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

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